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💅 Treat them (or yourself) to something nice.

PSA: Check the shipping date! When I did, these all arrived before Christmas.

• The right body wash is a game-changer. This one is under $10.
• For the girl boss, a leather laptop bag in lots of colors ($35; click the coupon box for 15% off).
• Everyone looks good in a classic pair of Ray-Bans (27% off).
• This Korean face mask set ($35) has a ton of five-star reviews.
• There’s no world in which a Le Creuset cast iron skillet wouldn’t be the best gift they get this year. Plus, it comes in 13 colors!
• Just look at these gel nail polish (15% off) colors. If she doesn’t have a UV lamp for the polish, this one’s under $20.
• Draw a bath, pour a glass of wine, grab a good book and relax. Add a snazzy bath tray for under $50.
• If they don’t have a pair of over-the-ear headphones yet, change that ASAP!

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They need money: X jacked up the price for a Premium+ subscription, which turns off ads and gives profiles a blue checkmark. Instead of $16 a month, it’s now $22 monthly. The basic subscription that lets you edit posts and type as much as you want is $3. Still not worth it.

Snapchat lawsuit: Some 64 families are suing Snap, claiming its Snapchat app connected their kids with drug dealers who poisoned them with fentanyl. With geolocation tools for easy handoffs and messages that vanish in 24 hours by default, it’s a dealer’s paradise. Snap’s defense? They’re not responsible for what others do or say on their platform.

🤖 It’s alive: OpenAI’s new o3 model can “think,” aka reason and check facts on its own. That’s a giant step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), where bots can do tasks they were never specifically trained for. Rest easy, o3 is a total ace at math and science, but it’s not quite ready to take over the world.

You can’t trust the ratings: Apple’s App Store is packed with inappropriate apps rated safe for kids (paywall link). Anonymous chat platforms, sexual games and body-tuning filters are slipping through, even with parental controls enabled. The loophole? Apple lets developers set their own age ratings. Parents, it’s your job.

For a man who says he believes he knows what happens after death. Chris Langan’s IQ is 30 to 50 points higher than Albert Einstein’s. The 72-year-old horse rancher thinks death isn’t the end but a move to another dimension, like existing inside a supercomputer. OK, that’s over my head.